Disciplinary Boundaries and the Rhetoric of the Social Sciences

Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education: A State of the Art

“…Archaeological, genealogical and critical studies together also exhibit who controls existing discourses and how these constitute the very boundaries of a new discipline. As a result, a focus on 'disciplinary boundaries' rather than 'discipline' can help reveal an understanding of the phenomenon as a combination of internal and external social processes (Fuller 1991).…”

Power/Knowledge: The Discursive Construction of an Author

“…Although "discourse" has been broadly equated with the concept of a discipline [25], its application has not been solely confined to scholarly fields. Foucault's theories have also been successfully applied to the study of a wide range of professional fields, such as accountancy [26], and even leisure pursuits, such as music [5].…”

Digital Media and Disciplinarity

“…But humanities and social science fields have different organizing and justificatory logics. Steve Fuller (1993) argues that disciplines justify themselves in part through appeals to worldly knowledge and power-when it is possible for them to do so. This was the basis for the claim to efficacy of humanistic inquiry from the Renaissance through the 19th century, and it is the basis for the contemporary claims of science as a preeminent mode of knowing: its predictive power, its ability to enable the knower to predict and cause events in the world.…”